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Wheels scooters - From the founders of WAG

Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2019 5:11 am
by Jim Dough
Hello scooter friends,

I'd like to start a discussion about Wheels e-bikes. I am studying all modes of electric transit in California from an electronics perspective by looking at the hardware in their brains.

I have been looking at the evolution in the circuit boards of these scooters from generations one through three in my area on Lime, Bird, Jump, and Lyft scooters. I'm really interested in how converting the new Wheels scooters will go.

I know a lot about the people behind Wheels. Let's just say they cut a lot of corners. Their speech in the press released about the bikes sounded like regurgitated marketing jargon and their "research and development investment" was just picking a company named Daibot.

Here is a source: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Daibot- ... 94569.html

Reverse image searching the first posting found the model is called "iwalk urban2"

https://www.componentsingapore.net/i-walk-m4/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWVM8U1QPwM

I did a file search for PDF's referencing that model and found this Russian user manual: https://ig-store.ru/files/products/3601 ... 2fb820.pdf

Here is the translated version: https://translate.google.com/translate? ... rev=search

These will be impounded and sold like the scooters: https://patch.com/california/santamonic ... nta-monica

Anyone else interested in these? Also, props to this community. The intelligence collection you people do with tricking scooter companies into giving you fact sheets and reverse engineering is pretty remarkable.

Re: Wheels scooters - From the founders of WAG

Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2019 1:38 pm
by Koolkidcharles
Should work by using a generic speed controller

Re: Wheels scooters - From the founders of WAG

Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2019 4:36 pm
by mikebsf
english manual via FCC. Looks like in the retail version has a RFID fob to unlock it for riding.
https://fccid.io/2AOVKEBIKE-U2/User-Man ... al-3739761

UK website?
http://i-walk.co.uk/product/urban-2-fol ... ic-scooter

singapore website
https://www.componentsingapore.net/i-walk-m4/

some more pictures
https://electricbikereview.com/forum/th ... ike.26614/

Re: Wheels scooters - From the founders of WAG

Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2019 5:23 pm
by Freebird
I wanted to try one out, but couldn't find any in Atlanta yesterday or today. I don't know if they pulled out of Atlanta or just hiding all of them from the rain.

The app has a 3.1 rating on the Google store.

Re: Wheels scooters - From the founders of WAG

Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2019 4:48 pm
by lax-scoot
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RFID fob

Re: Wheels scooters - From the founders of WAG

Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2019 5:05 pm
by Jim Dough
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Re: Wheels scooters - From the founders of WAG

Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2019 7:57 pm
by lax-scoot
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RFID fob

Re: Wheels scooters - From the founders of WAG

Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2019 8:01 pm
by BAD_JASON
Well, it looks like its just asking to be connected to a st-link. Interesting.

Re: Wheels scooters - From the founders of WAG

Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2019 11:56 am
by David Banner
You can’t buy the consumer version anymore. Wheels has an exclusive partnership with iWalk now.

They all come with RFID cards and that’s how they unlock.

Easy to steal and take home. Not so easy to get going. I have some that I ride around for free, but I have the original matching RFID cards to them.

Re: Wheels scooters - From the founders of WAG

Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2019 1:57 pm
by Freebird
Jim Dough wrote:
Tue Jun 11, 2019 5:05 pm
The internal components are more simple than I've seen in scooters. They seem to be cutting a lot of corners in their gen1 offering.
Less components, chips, etc is a sign of more advanced design and less corner cutting (crutches).